宗鏡錄 36.6

36.6

Answer: For the first five consciousnesses, in the defiled state, take the actual objects of the five dusts as conditions solely through actual perception. The eighth solely takes three objects as conditions through actual perception—the objects of seeds, the sensory faculties with the body, and the receptacle world—and its nature is solely indeterminate. The seventh, in the defiled state, constantly takes the darśanabhāga of the eighth as its object, which is subsumed under non-valid cognition. Now the contemplating mind, in reliance upon teaching, through inferential knowledge transforms and brings forth the nimittabhāga; because it is subsumed under inferential cognition, the wholesome nature, and the solitary image object, only the sixth has this capacity.